The U.S. Department of Education has released a new national education technology plan for the first time since 2016. Unlike past plans that have “largely served as surveys of the state of the field,” the 2024 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) “frames three key divides limiting the transformational potential of educational technology to support teaching and learning,” says a U.S. Department of Education press release. These are the digital use divide, the digital design divide and the digital access divide.
"The office of Ed Tech, working with other organizations, brought together stakeholders from K16 to put together a plan that focuses on closing the digital divide," says Greg Bagby, Coordinator of Instructional Technology at Hamilton County Department of Education in Tennessee, who participated in creating the plan. "There are examples from all 50 states on the work that’s going on."
